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- New: That's AcademicFor much of human history, teaching meant the imparting of information. Now that most of us carry a device in our pockets with access to nearly all of human knowledge, however, the notion that formal education is the only path to knowledge collapses. Similarly, to the extent that the status of a teacher or a […]
- REVISION: The Appointment of Executive Heads of International OrganizationsThis essay surveys the different procedures by which international organizations appoint their executive heads — whether designated president, secretary-general, managing director, or some other title. Such procedures vary according to their formal processes, ranging from the appointment by a plenary body or a subgroup to cases in which appointment is delegated to a specific set […]
- REVISION: How 'Public' is Public International Law? Towards a Typology of NGOs and Civil Society ActorsHow “public” is public international law? Despite its natural law origins, international law has long privileged the role of the state. Today, NGOs and civil society actors play an increasingly important role — offering a voice for the disenfranchised through their advocacy, and a helping hand for the disadvantaged through their operations. Calls for accountability […]
- REVISION: International Law and Its OthersIf the rule of law means anything, it is that the law is meant to apply equally to all regardless of the vacillations of power. This is the founding myth of law at the national level — famously forbidding the rich as well as the poor from sleeping under the bridges of Paris at night. […]
- REVISION: How 'Public' is Public International Law? Towards a Typology of NGOs and Civil Society ActorsHow “public” is public international law? Despite its natural law origins, international law has long privileged the role of the state. Today, NGOs and civil society actors play an increasingly important role — offering a voice for the disenfranchised through their advocacy, and a helping hand for the disadvantaged through their operations. Calls for accountability […]
- REVISION: International Law and Its OthersIf the rule of law means anything, it is that the law is meant to apply equally to all regardless of the vacillations of power. This is the founding myth of law at the national level — famously forbidding the rich as well as the poor from sleeping under the bridges of Paris at night. […]
- REVISION: One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty (Introduction)What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the name of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal and […]
- REVISION: One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty (Introduction)What limits, if any, should be placed on a government's efforts to spy on its citizens in the name of national security? Spying on foreigners has long been regarded as an unseemly but necessary enterprise. Spying on one's own citizens in a democracy, by contrast, has historically been subject to various forms of legal and […]
- REVISION: Last Rights: Euthanasia, the Sanctity of Life, and the Law in the Netherlands and the Northern Territory of AustraliaThis article considers the legal status of end of life decisions at the close of the twentieth century. In particular, I consider the two major arguments against legalising active voluntary euthanasia: the 'sanctity of life' argument that intentionally killing an individual as part of his or her medical care is always wrong, and the 'slippery […]
- REVISION: How “Public” is Public International Law? Towards a Typology of NGOs and Civil Society ActorsHow “public” is public international law? Despite its natural law origins, international law has long privileged the role of the state. Today, NGOs and civil society actors play an increasingly important role — offering a voice for the disenfranchised through their advocacy, and a helping hand for the disadvantaged through their operations. Calls for accountability […]
